Caswell County Historical Association: Blanche Moore Wedding... Mr. John F. Walters had Major Steadman to establish a post office on Rattlesnake Creek where it empties into the Dan River in 1887, beside the Norfolk-Franklin-Danville Railway between Danville and Milton. According to records, the name of Rattlesnake was ... However, if the community indeed was named for Blanche Lydia Moore, the wedding invitation shown above would instruct that the proper spelling is Blanche. Surely, Mrs. Moore knew how to spell her daughter's name! ...